More powerful software for time-critical systems through parallel processing is the goal of the parMERASA research project funded by the EU. Examples for products that would benefit from the project are real-time systems in airplanes and cars.

To avoid the congestion of the public internet, scientists, the military and the managers of huge cloud computing data centers have created private information superhighways  dedicated fiber-optic systems known as lambda networks. As it turns out, these private internet highways are riddled with potholes.